singlar@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Singlar) (03/16/89)
I recently bought a WD286 based AT clone from SAI which I am very happy with so far. However, I noticed the hard drive was factory labelled as an ST251. Since I paid extra to get the 28 ms ST251-1, I want to be sure SAI did not make a mistake by installing the 40 ms ST251. I thus have two questions: 1) Does Seagate omit the suffix digit when labelling their drives? 2) Are there any good benchmark utilities I can run to assess the average access time? Thanks in advance. -Steve Singlar
rong@cwsys2..CWRU.Edu (Rong Chen) (03/17/89)
In article <12093@ihlpa.ATT.COM> singlar@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Singlar) writes: >...factory labelled as an ST251. Since I paid extra to get the >28 ms ST251-1, I want to be sure SAI did not make a mistake >by installing the 40 ms ST251. I thus have two questions: > > 1) Does Seagate omit the suffix digit when labelling > their drives? > > 2) Are there any good benchmark utilities I can run > to assess the average access time? ST251-1 has 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-1 ST251 has also 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-0 so if you get "MLC-1", you get what you paid for. It's said that -1 & -0 are identical except when Seagate test the avg access time, those with speed faster than 28ms get -1, those slower than 28ms, but faster than 40ms get -0, i.e. ST251 w/o "-1". PC Magazine Bench Mark Test includes avg access test(avail thru PCNet, I guess). rong chen
karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM ([Karl Denninger]) (03/19/89)
>----- >Response 1 of 1 (2330) by rong at cwsys2 on Sat 18 Mar 89 1:6 >In article <12093@ihlpa.ATT.COM> singlar@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Singlar) writes: >>...factory labelled as an ST251. Since I paid extra to get the >>28 ms ST251-1, I want to be sure SAI did not make a mistake >>by installing the 40 ms ST251. I thus have two questions: >ST251-1 has 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-1 >ST251 has also 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-0 >so if you get "MLC-1", you get what you paid for. There are also MLC-2 and MLC-3 drives from Seagate; those are also 40ms units.... the ONLY ones which are 28ms are those which are labelled MLC-1 --- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, ddsw1!karl) Data: [+1 312 566-8912], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality solutions at a fair price"